A climate model intercomparison for the Antarctic region: Present and past

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 803-814

  Maris, M N A ^a   De Boer, B ^a   Oerlemans, J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84859898548     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-803-2012     Document Type: Article

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